Congrats to Juliann Cortese, OSU Alum!

Congratulations to OSU Alum. Juliann Cortese, who won the poster award at the recent Kentucky Health Communication Conference.  Juliann and her coauthor, Mia Lustria, are on the faculty at Florida State University. Their research was: "A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Interactive Tailored Video Intervention for STD Awareness."

Tentative Spring Quarter Schedule

March 30: Prospective Graduate Student Visitation Day: No IPCRG meeting

April 6: No IPCRG meeting

April 13: Quarter-to-semester conversation meetings: No IPCRG meeting

April 20: Kentucky Conference on Health Communication in Lexington: No meeting

(See http://comm.uky.edu/kchc/ to register!)

April 27: Margaret Rooney

May 4: ICA practice presentations (Elizabeth Jones, Uttara Manohar)

May 11: ICA practice presentations (Katey Price, Angela/Kathryn)

May 18: Comm Day: No IPCRG meeting

May 25: International Communication Association Conference in Phoenix: No meeting

(See http://www.icahdq.org/ to register!)

June 1: Phokeng Dailey

* Email Dr. Krieger if you would like to sign up for a practice presentation time slot.

CFP-Midwest Popular Culture Association

The Midwest Popular Culture Association conference is being held in Columbus, OH this year. The MPCA is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association. The association asks for papers that deal with any number of popular culture topics (mpcaaca.org). The conference this year is being held Oct 12-14.
Deadline for submission (submissions.mpcaaca.org) is Apr 30.

It's a small conference -- usually between 300-400 people -- and is a mix of faculty and graduate students. There are also undergraduate paper areas, and an undergrad paper competition.

For a complete list of areas, please see http://mpcaaca.org/conference/area-chairs/.

Tentative Winter Quarter Schedule

Greetings! Below is the tentative meeting schedule for Winter quarter. All meetings will be held from 12:30-1:30 in 3116 Derby Hall unless otherwise noted.

1/13: Dave Ewoldsen: Cooperative Competitive Game Play: A Research Agenda

1/20: Journal club: Schrodt, P., Witt, P. L., & Messersmith, A. S. (2008). A Meta-analytic review of family communication patterns and their associations with information processing, behavioral, and psychosocial outcomes. Communication Monographs, 75, 248-269.

1/27: Brad Bushman: Does Self-Love or Self-Hate Lead to Violence?

It has been widely asserted that low self-esteem causes violence, but laboratory evidence is lacking, and some contrary observations have characterized aggressors as narcissistic individuals having inflated, grandiose self-views (e.g., Hitler probably did not have low self-esteem). In experimental studies involving college students, we measured both simple self-esteem and narcissism and then gave individual subjects an opportunity to aggress against someone who had insulted them or praised them, or against an innocent third person. Self-esteem proved irrelevant to aggression. The combination of narcissism and insult led to exceptionally high levels of aggression toward the source of the insult. Neither form of self-regard affected displaced aggression, which was low in general. Similar results were found in a recent experiment involving 10-13 year old children. In a meta-analysis, we compare self-esteem and narcissism scores for violent male prisoners who had murdered, assaulted, raped, or robbed someone, and nonviolent males the same age. Violent prisoners had much higher narcissism scores than the nonviolent men did, but self-esteem scores were similar for the two groups. These findings contradict the popular view that low self-esteem causes aggression and point instead toward threatened egotism as an important cause. Unfortunately, narcissism scores are increasing over time (at least in American college students). Fortunately, experiments show that narcissistic aggression can be reduced by increasing the psychological overlap between the narcissist and the victim. Narcissists love themselves, and if someone else is like them, they are reluctant to aggress against that person. A 1-week longitudinal study also shows that make self-esteem more stable and secure can reduce narcissistic aggression.

2/3: CJ Lee: The Role of Social Capital in Public Health Communication Campaigns: The Case of the Anti-Drug Media Campaign

Using a two-round longitudinal panel dataset from the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY), I examined the roles of antidrug-related community activities at both individual and aggregate levels in the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. I found a main effect of parent's antidrug-specific community activities on targeted parent-child communication about drugs. More interestingly, parents who did not actively participate in antidrug-related community activities were more likely to talk about drugs with their offspring after being exposed to the antidrug campaign ads than were their counterparts. In contrast, there was little evidence for a contextual effect of aggregate-level antidrug-specific community activities on targeted parent-child communication or for its cross-level interaction with campaign exposure. I will discuss the implications of these findings for communication research and public health intervention efforts.

2/10: Angela Palmer-Wackerly: Dancing around Infertility: The Use of Metaphors in a Complex Medical Situation

2/17: Katey Price: Identifying Uncertainty: Changing Roles for Dementia Family Caregivers and Ambiguous Identity

2/24: Susan Kline

3/2: Comm 820 students

Call for Papers IALSP 13

The next conference of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology, ICLASP 13, will be held between 20-23rd June, 2012, in the charming city of Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, the capital of bilingual Fryslân in The Netherlands . The conference will be held in conjunction with Mercator, the European Research Center on Multilingualism and Language Learning, which is part of the Fryske Akademy. Conference details are available at at www.ialsp.org and www.mercator-research.eu.

This conference will bring together scholars from different disciplines who explore language and communication in their social contexts using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The focus is mainly on aspects such as identities, perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, values, motivations, norms, behaviour, policies and so on in their individual and intergroup contexts. Topics covered in previous conferences include language and health communication; language learning; bilingualism & multilingualism; language and discrimination, interpersonal, intercultural, interethnic and intergroup communication; nonverbal communication; miscommunication and communication failure; discourse analysis; language and ageing; language and mass media; language and humour; language and gender; language and authority; language and tourism; language and technology; language and security; endangered, regional and minority languages; language planning; and so on (see http://www.ialsp.org/).

Papers and symposia are invited for submission on these and related topics.

Submissions will be accepted in two forms: Symposia or individual papers/abstracts. Details for each are provided below. Please note that (i) all submissions and presentations need to be in English; (ii) by submitting a proposal for presentation at ICLASP13 you are agreeing to register for and attend the conference should your paper/symposia be accepted.

Symposia/panel submission should be a single file containing:
(i) Name(s) and complete contact information for the convenor(s)
(ii) A 250 word maximum introduction to the thematic content of the symposium with title
(iii) A list of the individual papers, including titles and brief abstracts of each (250 words max.), the names, complete contact information for all authors, clearly indicating the presenter(s). A typical symposium is 3-4 presenters with an introduction and a discussant


Individual paper submissions should be a single file containing:
(i) The names and complete contact information for all authors with a clear indication of who will present the paper
(ii) A 250 word maximum abstract of the paper
Deadline: 14th February, 2012 (decision by 14 March); later submissions reviewed on ongoing basis
Send to: iclasp13@fryske-akademy.nl with "ICLASP 13 submission" in subject line

For Grad Students Interested in Qual Methods

Dear QIers,

We are considering the development of a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization (GIS) in qualitative inquiry. A GIS is like a minor for graduate students in which they take one or two required, core courses along with related elective courses that are not in their own program.

In preparation, we would like to organize a workshop series for graduate students on qualitative inquiry in Winter and Spring 2012 on different aspects of qualitative inquiry (e.g., conceptual frameworks, research design, data collection and analysis, writing and representation). One of the goals of the seminar series is to make an inventory of students' needs and visions for a QI GIS.

We are looking for graduate students who want to help co-organize (and conceptualize) the workshop series.

If you are a graduate student who is interested, please send us an e-mail.

If you are a faculty member and have a graduate student who may be interested, please forward our e-mail.

Many thanks,

Candace Stout
Department of Art Education
stout.127@osu.edu

Mark Moritz
Department of Anthropology
moritz.42@osu.edu

IP research in the news... Congratulations Dr. Renfro Powers!

MedicalExpress.com recently featured an article by Dr. Renfro Powers published in Computers in Human Behavior showing that when two strangers first talked about an emotionally charged topic over a video connection with a one-second delay, they actually reported less frustration than did those who talked with no delay.

Powers said the reason is that the delay forced participants to make more effort to follow each other, and they weren't thinking as much about the difficult topic they were discussing or the uncomfortable situation they were in.

Read the complete article.